{"id":972130,"date":"2025-11-06T08:12:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972130"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:25:34","slug":"cyberattack-on-marks-spencer-slices-profits-by-more-than-a-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/06\/cyberattack-on-marks-spencer-slices-profits-by-more-than-a-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberattack on Marks &amp; Spencer slices profits by more than a half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British retailer Marks and Spencer saw its half-year profits more than halve as a result of a cyberattack that brought its online business to a grinding halt. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement Wednesday, M&amp;S said its underlying pretax profits tumbled 55.4% to 184.1 million pounds ($240 million) in the six months to Sept. 27, largely on the back of a 40% collapse in online home and fashion sales after it was forced to halt website orders. Firm food sales helped cushion the blow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British retailer Marks and Spencer saw its half-year profits more than halve as a result of a cyberattack that brought its online business to a grinding halt. In a statement Wednesday, M&amp;S said its underlying pretax profits tumbled 55.4% to 184.1 million pounds ($240 million) in the six months to Sept. 27, largely on the back of a 40% collapse in online home and fashion sales after it was forced to halt website orders. Firm food sales helped cushion the blow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}